Favorite Schools

Favorite Teams

Rutgers hires St. Peter's assistant Dalip Bhatia as new Director of Basketball Operations

Dalip-bench-300x453.jpg

Former Saint Peter's assistant coach Dalip Bhatia will join the staff at his alma mater, becoming the Director of Basketball Operations under new head coach Eddie Jordan.
(Photo courtesy of Saint Peter's Athletics)

After five years on the staff at Saint Peter's — the last three as an assistant coach — Bhatia will join Eddie Jordan's new staff at Rutgers this upcoming season. Bhatia, a 2005 graduate of Rutgers, will fill the void left by Josh Loeffler, who took an assistant coach's position at Loyola (Md.) this spring.

In addition to coming back to the Scarlet Knights program, the return home is a particularly special one for Bhatia.

The 30-year old grew up 10 minutes down the road from Rutgers' New Brunswick campus in North Brunswick.

Bhatia's hire likely completes Jordan's staff for next season at Rutgers. He has currently retained two assistants hired by former head coach Mike Rice — David Cox and Van Macon — already. He is also likely to fill out the third assistant's position with former Lakers assistant to the head coach, Kyle Triggs.

Triggs' hire has not been made official, but is reportedly set to be announced soon.